Song Quotes · Page 692

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

— Dana Gioia

“But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message.”

— David Pietrusza

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

— David Alan Grier

Getting to see the impact of the music that I write and people having moments with their friends is cool.

— Maisie Peters

Fill my heart with song, let me sing for ever more, you are all I long for, all I worship and adore

— Frank Sinatra

Sometimes, we've made songs where we're angry and yelling, and then there are some songs where we're just having fun and dancing…

— Tucker Halpern

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

— John Prine

“Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.”

— Don Campbell

I think we're at the end of all the revivals. People would forget about punk for a while, and then a magazine…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny…

— Greil Marcus

If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons' last single, 'Aviation High,' you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in…

— Justin Tranter

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and…

— John Frusciante

Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I…

— Jimmy Page

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a…

— John Carney

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure…

— Kathy Mattea

I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you…

— Charlie Benante

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that…

— Taylor Swift

I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things…

— Boy George

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

— Jay Watson

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with…

— Jhene Aiko

I carry my finger pick around all the time now, because it reminds me that I want to keep playing guitar.

— Monica Barbaro

Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a…

— David Novak

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write…

— Dolly Parton

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.

— Luka Sulic

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

— Robert James Waller

She like a beat that makes me wanna grab the mic. She like the lyrics that I wanna recite.

— Will I Am

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

— Anonymous

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

— Dave Clark

Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

— Nile Rodgers

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

— Dizzy Gillespie

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who…

— Chris Cornell

“Her songwriting process begins with her sitting down and saying to herself "Okay, who is this about? and what would I say…

— Jessica Stewart

Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.

— Mary Gauthier

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

“(In reply to: Which is more important, the sound or the music?) 'Both equal, some people don't care about words but for…

— Steven Battelle

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

— Robert Crumb

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

— John Barry